# Kalachakra dasa — the pada sequence, sourced

Reference chart: 15 Sep 1980, 07:30:00, TZ +5:30. Moon 210.683172 deg = Visakha
pada 4.

The panel header states everything the catalogue said was missing except the
other three cycles:

    From Moon of D-1, Apasavya, Paramayush: 86 yr, Deha: Sc, Jiva: Pi

And every mahadasa row is **labelled with the nakshatra pada it belongs to**,
which is the mapping itself rather than something to be inferred from it:

    Cn (Visa4)  1976-05-24 - 1997-05-24   21 y
    Le (Anu1)   1997-05-24 - 2002-05-24    5 y
    Ge (Anu2)   2002-05-24 - 2011-05-25    9 y
    Ta (Anu3)   2011-05-25 - 2027-05-25   16 y
    Ar (Anu4)   2027-05-25 - 2034-05-25    7 y
    Pi (Jye1)   2034-05-25 - 2044-05-24   10 y
    Aq (Jye2)   2044-05-24 - 2048-05-24    4 y
    Cp (Jye3)   2048-05-24 - 2052-05-24    4 y
    Sg (Jye4)   2052-05-24 - 2062-05-25   10 y

## What this establishes

**The rasi-year table**, which is shared by both cycles:

    Ar 7  Ta 16  Ge 9  Cn 21  Le 5  Vi 9  Li 16  Sc 7  Sg 10  Cp 4  Aq 4  Pi 10

Nine of the twelve are read directly off the rows above. The savya sequence
Ar Ta Ge Cn Le Vi Li Sc Sg then sums to 7+16+9+21+5+9+16+7+10 = **100**, which
is savya's paramayush and confirms the three unobserved entries.

**One apasavya sequence**, complete: Cn Le Ge Ta Ar Pi Aq Cp Sg, summing to
21+5+9+16+7+10+4+4+10 = **86**, exactly the paramayush the header states.

Worth flagging: 86, not the 85 usually quoted for apasavya. The application's
own header and its own row arithmetic agree with each other, so 86 is what it
computes, whatever the books say. This is the second time the running
application has disagreed with a commonly quoted figure — and like the Mars
moolatrikona discrepancy, it is recorded rather than smoothed over.

**The unit of the cycle.** Nine consecutive nakshatra *padas* map to nine rasis
— here Visakha pada 4 through Jyeshtha pada 4. So a cycle spans 2.25 nakshatras,
and the 108 padas of the zodiac make exactly 12 cycles.

## What is still needed, and the cheap way to get it

Three of the four cycle sequences are still unobserved. The sweep is
well-defined: the Moon advances about one nakshatra a day, so twelve charts at
roughly 2.25-day intervals put the Moon in each of the twelve pada-groups in
turn, and each capture returns nine labelled rows. Twelve captures completes
the entire 108-pada table, and the savya/apasavya assignment per group falls
out of the headers at the same time.